… The Big East will also be adding Central Florida, Houston, SMU, Navy, San Diego State and Boise State in the coming years, and soon will lose West Virginia to the Big 12 and Pittsburgh and Syracuse to the Atlantic Coast Conference.

The Big East’s plan has been to get to 12 football teams and eventually have a conference championship game. Memphis, plus incumbent schools Cincinnati, UConn, Louisville, Rutgers and South Florida, could get the conference to that point by 2015.

No geography and diminished quality (here’s a statistical snapshot of Memphis’ last football season. Ugh.) make for a helluva combination. Boise State’s gotta be pinching itself today over its good fortune. It looks like the Broncos have fallen into the best of both worlds: a BCS conference which they stand a good chance of dominating.

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It looks to me like the Boise State Broncos have fallen into the WORST of both worlds: A conference about to lose its BCS status and a conference where it will have to travel over 2500 miles at minimum for every away game.

In this new world of collegiate sports, you have to follow the money and that is thru the TV dollars via conference affiliation and spreading the size of your viewing market to gain those extra dollars.

Yeah. They just stay there perpetually playing football and every so often legally change their names so they don’t get caught. Some of their O-Linemen and D-Linemen are 35 years old and have 6 degrees.

And we’ve lost to two of the add-ons over the last two years. That, on top of our historical flops versus the Big East (BC in ’86 & ’01, ‘Cuse in ’89 and most recently WV in ’05) means we should probably just let it slide.

* Yes, I’m aware BC is in the ACC, that WV is going to the Big XII and Syracuse is going to the ACC. That’s not the point.

When the Big Split comes, the Big East is positioning itself as the New Sun Belt – the out-of-conference scheduling destination of choice for Ohio State, Florida, Texas et al. Kind of hard to work in LaTech and Toledo when you’ve effectively sent them back to D-II by splitting off the Big 6.

But I honestly wonder if the Big East even makes the cut. I know they have to try, but it’s hard for me to see the ACC, Big12, B1G, SEC, and P-12 giving the Big East a seat at their table. Right now, it’s the Best of the Rest.

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“It brings back a great Bulldog running back in Thomas who has NFL playing experience and has had success as a college coach at multiple schools. He also inherits a position that has been built to an elite level by Bryan. And it gives Bryan the opportunity to return to coaching the position he played and the one where he cut his teeth serving as a graduate assistant under wide receiver coach John Eason here at UGA. It also provides him with a new experience as a passing game coordinator.” -- Mark Richt, AB-H, 2/16/15